AnarchistArtificer

@AnarchistArtificer@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook advertised a professional child kidnapping service to me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing this. I’ve still got quite a few chapters to go, but I wanted to comment this thought before I forget it: it’s so incredibly striking how powerful the small acts of kindness are. I’ve cried more at the little gestures of kindness than at all the cruelty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Despite not owning one, I really like the Steam Deck because I suspect it has made my transition to Linux far smoother (for a while, I dual booted because I was fearful that gaming on Linux would be difficult.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “if you can accurately call it “scraping” then it’s always fair use.”

  I think you make some compelling points overall, but fair use has always been more complex than this. The intent is taken into account when evaluating whether something is fair use, but so is the actual impact — “fair use” is a designation applied to the overall situation, not to any singular factors (so a stated purpose can’t be fair use)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨F.D.A. to Use A.I. in Drug Approvals to ‘Radically Increase Efficiency’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw a paper a while back that argued that AI is being used as “moral crumple zones”. For example, an AI used for health insurance acts allows for the company to reject medically necessary procedures without employees incurring as much moral injury as part of that (even low level customer service reps are likely to find comfort in being able to defer to the system.). It’s an interesting concept that I’ve thought about a lot since I found it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub is Leaking Trump’s Plans to 'Accelerate' AI Across Government⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh, Andreeson is such a creep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people are being forced to use it though — this is where much of the ire is coming from. These people are likely in the minority though. Something that’s much more concerning though is the use of AI that affects us, but we don’t get a say: doctors being made to use generative AI transcription tools (which perform worse than established audio transcription software that doesn’t use AI). The people pushing doctors to use AI are doing it to wring more productivity out of them — more patients in less time. This means that even if a patient doesn’t end up with AI hallucinations in their medical records, their experience seeing their doctor will likely be worse.

  Cases like this are becoming less niche as time progresses, despite mounting research showing the harms of these technologies when they’re applied in this way. Increasingly we are being put into situations where AI tools aren’t something to be used by us (which is something you can often opt out of), but things to be used on us. We don’t find out until something goes wrong, and when it does, regular people can struggle to challenge the situation (the example coming to mind here is false positives in facial recognition systems being used by the police. It is leading to more innocent people being wrongfully arrested)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a favourite rock

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for the perfect 5 year anniversary gift?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the web we lost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am glad that he tried to assassinate 418, because the massive outcry that led to 418 being saved is something wholesome that I love.

  Link with context for anyone unfamiliar with the context: save418.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building a slow web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something that I have enjoyed recently are blogs by academics, which often have a list of other blogs that they follow. Additionally, in their individual posts, there is often a sense of them being a part of a wider conversation, due to linking to other blogs that have recently discussed an idea.

  I agree that the small/slow web stuff is more useful for serendipitous discovery rather than searching for answers for particular queries (though I don’t consider that a problem with the small/slow web per se, rather with the poor ability to search for non-slop content on the modern web)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Building a slow web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With respect to the presentation of your site, I like it! It’s quite stylish and displays well on my phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s baffling to me how customisable some fruit features can be. I know someone who works in plant genomics and cultivation and it’s really cool how they can use genomic analysis alongside selective breeding to select for traits. I imagine that imported papayas are cultivars that are easier to transport internationally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I replied to Kris elsewhere saying this, but I am super glad to have been a part of this instance because it feels like a nice balance of being large enough to be robust and diverse, but small enough to have a distinctive culture. I don’t often interact with the communities that were on the instance, but I always enjoy seeing my peers crop up in the comments of various posts — it’s one of my favourite parts of Lemmy being federated (db0 is another example of an instance that has such a distinctive vibe that seeing it as someone’s instance is often useful metadata that affects how I parse their comment)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Slrpnk instance is down till mid July; they might relaunch their server on piefed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (speaking as a slrpnk user): Another backup communication strategy (once things are backup) might be to designate somewhere on a non-slrpnk instance as a place where people can check for updates if things go down; when I first discovered the outage, I wasn’t sure where to go to check for info/updates.

  Unrelatedly, I hope that this unexpected outage isn’t causing you or other admins too much stress. Whilst the extended nature of this outage is unfortunate, I respect that you’re using this as an opportunity to migrate to a more robust solution. This kind of resilience focussed response is a key part of the solarpunk ethos, in my view.

  Some people have said that such a long outage seems likely to kill an instance, but for my part, this community is worth waiting for — I have enjoyed having an account on this instance because it feels like the perfect blend of small enough to have a distinct culture and ethos, but is large enough to be robust and diverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I really appreciate iFixit and how they help bring the discussion of repairability to the forefront.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  An interesting component here is that it’s possible that the video creator is responsible for this silly level of ads, but it’s impossible to know. Creators can select points in the video where ads will happen, which they can use to preserve the video’s flow as much as possible. In theory, you can even select to not monetise your video at all, which is a useful tool if the topic is something particularly dense or sensitive. In practice, I’ve seen plenty of creators apologizing when an inappropriate ad plays at a sensitive part of the video, despite them having tried to disable ads on the video. It must suck to have so little power over one’s own work.

  In your case, I suspect this was a creator choosing to maximally monetise their video, given the regularity and number of ads. However, it’s possible that this is a 100% “Fuck Google” situation, given how opaque they are. I find it frustrating that when we have poor experiences like yours, we don’t even have a clear target to get angry at. It leads to accountability so diffuse that it’s like homeopathy. Getting angry doesn’t necessarily help change things (at least individually), but it can be incredibly cathartic even then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It often does, yeah. Not always though. I got one of the adblock warnings last night, and it refused to play the video. I fixed it by heading into ublock settings and manually updating. It always makes me laugh how rapidly the ad-blocker arms war progresses